Ponderosa Cafe

Ponderosa Cafe Llangollen Reviews

The Ponderosa Cafe is a complex of a cafe and gift shop at the head of the Horseshoe Pass, in Wales. It is extremely popular with walkers, motorbike riders and cyclists.

The main attraction is its incredible location, high on a pass with miles of walking routes and some fun roads. The car park will give you a couple of hours (there's a public car park across the road where you can stop for longer if you are walking all day). And the view on a clear day is gorgeous, and well worth stopping here for.

The food is very nice. The cuisine is basic British - fish and chips, sausage and chips, lasagne and chips, cake (probably not and chips, although I am sure that could be arranged), coffee. But it is nicely cooked and the busy cafe ensures that it's all fresh. It's a self service cafe but the waitresses were very helpful, everyone was polite and tables were cleared quickly. It's also very good value for money given the location - one adult meal and one child meal with a drink came to exactly a tenner in 2017.

It was busy when I went, on a cold wet Sunday in March, so I would imagine it is extremely busy on a sunny weekend in high season. You might have to queue. It would be worth it.